Sunday, August 15, 2010

A certain blog short-lived

A short time back a new blog in McHenry County was established Its author seemed to have one target in his sights; namely, one Gus Philpott.

I checked the phone book to see if there was another Gus Philpott in this area; there isn't. Actually, I had known a Gus Philpott when I lived in Denver, but he died in 2005. Then I checked the back of my t-shirt for a target with a bulls-eye on it.

The author of that blog wasn't proud enough of his name to publish it. Seems he was worried about losing his job. It wasn't hard to figure out where he works. He identified himself as a "retired peace officer" and then said how he was worried that he would get fired if found out as the author of that blog.

Well, you can't have it both ways. If he was truthful about being a retired peace officer and employed now (and angry that I'm running for sheriff), there is only one place where he'd be working. Starts with J-; ends with -L.

Now he is even more secretive because, unless you are "invited", you can't read anything he writes; i.e., if he is writing anything.

He ranted one day that no one reads the Woodstock Advocate. The first article was on April 15, 2007, and I added a counter here in January 2009. As of today, there have been 300,837 clicks on this site since January 3, 2009.

My thanks to all of you readers. If you would like to share this blog with 1-2 other people, just use the little white "envelope" at the bottom of this article to forward this to a couple of friends.

Thanks!

4 comments:

Laurie Rabattini said...

Keep up the hard work Gus. People are reading and that's all that matters. They'll say anything to try to defeat you. It's propaganda. They want to instill fear in you. They try to do it over here in Island Lake too, but I know what my traffic stats say.

You are an advocate for the people!

Laurie

Gus said...

Thanks, Laurie.

"Fear" is a four-letter word that is not in my vocabulary.

Keep up the good work in Island Lake.

FatParalegal said...

It's chilling when a member of law enforcement is so adamant against such concepts as free speech and right of election. I guess they are for Constitutional rights only when it serves their interests and agendas.

Notawannabee said...

Gus,
Don’t be patting yourself on the back too hard. 300,000 hits are not what counts. Must people just hit your blog to see what kind of dribble is being printed by you today. I'd say it is nothing more than some MORBID curiosity. It’s much like driving past a bad car wreck. People don’t agree with you, rather they laugh at you wondering what kind of perverted idiocy you will publish today.

While you’re at it, why not search and see if there is a law somewhere that dictates how many points should be on a Sheriff’s star. I'll wait with eager anticipation while you search and try and answer this question